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A person, otherwise limited in mental ability, has amazing specific skills. This is because of
Answer: D
A person who is limited in mental ability but has amazing special skills, such as calendar calculation or musical memory, has the savant syndrome, previously called idiot savant. Academic under- or over-achievement concerns performance relative to ability, and practical intelligence is the everyday problem solving ability described by Sternberg, which does not fit a person limited otherwise. Famous examples are persons who can name the day of the week for any date or play a tune after one hearing, while scoring low on general tests of intelligence; Gardner has used such cases to argue for separate intelligences. The answer is savant syndrome.
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